Surrounding

The Cilene hotel is located in one of the most beautiful landscapes in Italy, in Versilia in Viareggio, a stone's throw from the beach and in front of the Ponente pine forest and close to the most exclusive beaches in Tuscany: Forte dei Marmi, Lido di Camaiore, Viareggio.
Artistic jewels such as Lucca, Pisa, Pietrasanta, Torre del Lago Puccini are located a few kilometers from the Hotel, Florence, the Cinque Terre, the Carrara Marble Quarries, Siena, Volterra and many other characteristic cities and towns are easily reachable.
The Hotel Cilene is also located a few steps from the center of Viareggio, the train station can also be reached on foot, and it is also possible to visit local attractions such as the carnival citadel and the Matilde Tower and the wonderful seafront promenade.
We are also waiting for you during the Carnival period to admire the pharaonic papier-mâché floats known throughout the world.

Below you can visit the fascinating images of the surrounding areas

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La pineta di Viareggio

First a Ligurian and then an Etruscan settlement, in 180 BC. Lucca became a Roman colony. Following the fall of the Roman Empire, the city was conquered by the Goths and during the 6th century it became the capital of the Lombard Duchy of Tuscia. Upon the fall of the latter, it became the seat of the Marquisate of Tuscany.


In 1119 Lucca was established as a free municipality, and then transformed into a Podesteria, in which power was governed by representatives of the new merchant class, which was beginning to develop in that period. Alongside the`silk industry, an intense banking activity also developed, thanks to which Lucca became an important economic center at a European level.

In the same period, being crossed by the Via Francigena, Lucca became a fundamental stop on the pilgrimage that brought the Christians of northern Europe to Rome.

Involved in the wars between Pisa and Florence and in the struggle between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and dominated for some time by Uguccione della Faggiuola, Castruccio Castracani and the Guinigi family, Lucca became a republic in 1430 and maintained its independence until 1799.

In 1805 Napoleon, at the request of the Senate of Lucca, established the Principality of Lucca and Piombino, assigning it to his sister Elisa and her husband, Felice Baciocchi.

With the Congress of Vienna and the Restoration, the Duchy of Lucca was created, attributed to the Bourbons of Parma. Maria Luisa of Bourbon was succeeded by her son, Carlo Ludovico (1824), who reigned until 1847, when the duchy became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

In 1860 Lucca and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany were annexed to the Kingdom of`Italy.

We recommend a guided tour of the walls

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If you have children, the Pinocchio Park in Collodi is very nice and fun

Parco di Collodi

The exhibition of the "Leonardo da Vinci Machines" is located in the center of the city, in one of the most renowned streets of Florence.
The exhibition of the "Niccolai Collection" Artigiani Fiorentini is made up of over 50 models, many of which can be used in their operation, distributed in four rooms: a large room, where you can find civil machines, one dedicated to flight machines, another to war machines and the most recent to the collection of anatomical models. The interactive museum is particularly suitable for families and schools. But very important for those who want to deepen their engineering knowledge of the great genius.
Inside the museum it is possible to view the documentary on the life and works of Leonardo on the big screen.
The museum also has a "Caffè Michelangiolo" refreshment area which has an agreement with the entrance to the exhibition and a bookshop full of publications and gadgets.

Museo Leonardo da Vinci

The water village of fun

In Cecina, immersed in the Etruscan Coast, you can discover a corner of Hawaii by immersing yourself in the water park, nominated for Best Water Park in Italy at the ParksMania Awards.
At Acqua Village Cecina you will find the right mix of adrenaline and relaxation suitable for an audience of all ages.
Hundreds of meters of slides! New for 2018: Loko, the fire slide, a journey to the center of the Lua Pele volcano, the island of volcanoes, thanks to 3D Projecting mapping technology. And again Moku, the Children's Island by Pago, a swimming pool with playground and slides suitable for the little ones!
Under the Hawaiian umbrellas you will hear the call of the Mauna Loa volcano-theater with the Aqua Mantica show which hosts international acrobats.
Wai, the fun circus school for children with activities and games, in collaboration with the Mantica circus school.
And then many refreshment points to satisfy all tastes! And before leaving, go to the Photo Village and choose your souvenir photo!

Acqua park Cecina

The Antro del Corchia Tourist Cave is the main attraction of the corchiapark, the main tourist system in Upper Versilia that offers the chance to experience the mountains in every aspect. On Monte Corchia, in addition to the Tourist Cave, you can visit the ancient Living Silver Mines, go trekking along wonderful paths accompanied by environmental guides, visit the Levigliani museum system and enjoy the very rich local gastronomic offer.

corchiapark

The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa is one of the oldest museums in the world.

Born at the end of the 16th century as a “Gallery” attached to the Giardino dei Semplici in Pisa (the current Botanical Garden), the Museum has enriched its collections over the centuries and today preserves a heritage of enormous historical and scientific value.

Since the end of the Seventies the Museum has been located in the suggestive Certosa di Pisa in Calci, a fourteenth-century building of inestimable historical-architectural value.

The Museum is a University Center with scientific autonomy that belongs to the University Museum System.

The Museum preserves and enhances its collections, organizes and supports study and research plans, in collaboration with university departments and other national and international bodies, and takes care of educational and dissemination activities. In its role as a center for the aggregation and diffusion of culture, the Museum also hosts cultural events and temporary exhibitions, carries out projects cooperating with the territory and manages inclusion programs aimed at different types of audiences.

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The Cinque Terre (Çinque Tære in Ligurian) is a jagged stretch of coast of the eastern Ligurian Riviera (La Spezia Riviera) located in the territory of the province of La Spezia between Punta Mesco and Punta di Montenero, in which there are five villages or, as they said in ancient times, lands, listed here from west to east: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, Riomaggiore.

Since 1997 they have been part of the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, with the following motivation:

«The eastern Ligurian Riviera of the Cinque Terre is a cultural landscape of exceptional value that represents the harmonious interaction established between man and nature to create a landscape of exceptional quality, which manifests a thousand-year-old traditional way of life and which continues to play a leading socioeconomic role in the life of society.»

Thanks to the geographical and anthropic characteristics of the territory where they are located, the Cinque Terre are considered one of the most evocative Italian coastal attractions, due to their naturally harsh and rugged hilly orographic context, softened by the construction of terraces or bands for cultivation, which descends towards the sea with steep slopes; in the points where the sea serpentinely insinuates itself into the land there are villages, articulated to follow the natural shape of the hills.

The work of man, over the centuries, has shaped the territory by building the famous terraces on the sea slopes, due to the particular agricultural technique aimed at exploiting as much as possible the steeply sloping land that slopes down towards the sea, thus making it one of the most characteristic and fascinating landscapes of Liguria.

Fonte Wikipedia

Cinque Terre in battello